Cowboys special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis out of running for Chicago Bears head coaching job

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Jan 16, 2013

DeCamillis has left the Cowboys to become the special teams coordinator and assistant head coach for the Chicago Bears. Cowboys special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis is out of the running for the Chicago head coaching job with the Bears reportedly down… (more) to three candidates to replace Lovie Smith. Oakland sought permission to speak to DeCamillis 11 months ago after Dennis Allen, who worked with DeCamillis in Atlanta, took over as head coach. But the Cowboys denied DeCamillis the opportunity to interview and had the right to do so since it was viewed as a lateral job move. According to Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com, the Cowboys allowed DeCamillis to make what amounts to a lateral move to go work for the Bears as an assistant under new head coach Marc Trestman. This marks the second consecutive off-season the Cowboys special teams coordinator has been approached. The Cowboys blocked a move to Oakland last year which would have included the assistant head coach title last year, but not this offseason.